Criminal Justice

Baltimore City Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Toolkit

April 27, 2022 by Musaab Ibrahim
Baltimore City FY23 Budget As the 2022 budget process gets underway, city residents have an opportunity tonight to weigh in read more

Legislative Session Brought a Wide Range of Policies that Will Improve Well-Being for Children and Families

April 21, 2022 by Nonso Umunna
The 2022 Maryland legislative session saw the passage of several bills that will increase economic security and improve the wellbeing read more

Budgeting For Opportunity

November 18, 2020 by MDCEP
How Our Fiscal Policy Choices Can Remove Barriers Facing Marylanders of Color and Advance Shared Prosperity Maryland’s budget provides the read more

Budgeting for Opportunity: Our Shared Investments Can Build Safe, Just, Thriving Communities

November 18, 2020 by Christopher Meyer
With activists across the state calling for greater investment in communities, rather than punishment, and a viral pandemic putting the read more

We Need Action to Advance Anti-Racist Policies. Here Are Some Ideas.

June 3, 2020 by Benjamin Orr
“I can’t breathe.” We know this simple phrase as the last words of George Floyd and Eric Garner, both while read more

Removing barriers to opportunity for formerly incarcerated people benefits all Marylanders

April 26, 2019 by Ellen Hutton
Every Marylander should have the chance to achieve their full potential. However, Marylanders with a criminal record often face significant read more

Maryland Needs to Invest in Working Families to Support a Thriving Economy

October 2, 2018 by Kenna Lemu
While our state’s overall economy is stronger, a decade after the Great Recession many working Marylanders’ paychecks have not fully read more

Maryland Should Build on its Past Success in Reducing Incarceration

May 31, 2018 by Christopher Meyer
The number of people confined in Maryland prisons declined by 10 percent in 2017, a steeper drop than in any read more

It’s Time to Break Maryland’s Poverty to Prison Pipeline

March 30, 2018 by Christopher Meyer
A new report from the Job Opportunities Task Force shows the many ways Maryland’s criminal law system ensnares people who read more

Blueprint for Broadly Shared Prosperity in Maryland

March 27, 2018 by MDCEP
Maryland has a lot to be proud of. Our past investments in our education system, health care, transportation network, safe read more
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